SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT:

12^th  GRADE ADVANCED PLACEMENT ENGLISH LITERATURE AND COMPOSITION

 

Welcome to the St. Joseph High School senior AP English Literature and Composition class.

 

Please remember - this class is a college level class.

 

For your summer reading assignment you will read in their entirety and annotate the following required books with the following ISBN numbers and publishers.  You are only to purchase these specific editions which were chosen because there is room in the margins for annotations and, when we review the texts in class, we can all refer to the same page numbers.  Books required:

 

   PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL THE BELOW BOOKS WILL BE AVAILABLE THROUGH MEKTRON  

THE PRICES, GIVE OR TAKE A $1.00, ARE LISTED (IN GREEN) AFTER THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK.

 

1)A Light In August by William Faulkner $13.95 Vintage International Addition ISBN 0-679-73226-8  Read page 72 of The Intellectual Devotional before reading this book.

2) Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison $14.95 Vintage International ISBN 0-679-73276-4 Read page 233 of The Intellectual Devotional before reading this book.

3) The Great Gatsby  by F. Scott Fitzgerald $15.12 Simon & Schuster      ISBN 13-9780743273565 Read page 79 of The Intellectual Devotional before reading this book.

4) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte $7.00 Penguin Group ISBN 13:9780141439556

5) The Intellectual Devotional, Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education and Roam Confidently with the Cultured Class  by David S. Kidder & Noah D. Oppenheim $24.00 Rodale Press  ISBN 13: 9781594865138 -  Note:  You are to read by August through page 42 ONLY for this text only.  You will be assigned the balance of the book during the school year.

 

Assignment:  Annotations

As you read each book you are required to make frequent, copious marginal written notes (textual annotations). You may use ‘post it’ notes.  You know how to do this from English 11.  Underline important points, literary techniques and then write notes beside them in the margin with a brief explanation.  When you come to class in August, I will collect all your books – you will be receiving a test grade on your annotations in these books.  Your annotations, of course, must be written legibly and neatly.                          

REQUIRED FOR ANNOTATIONS:

Vocabulary - Each word you come across that you do not know the definition of, look it up in the dictionary and write a brief definition

Underline important and interesting passages to you.  Particular vivid images – what effect do they have on the writer’s purpose? Why are they important or interesting?

Note questions you have about the writing.

Identify literary techniques used by the author- underline them  and write in the margins the effect - if the technique helped bring the author’s point across (e.g. analogy, hyperbole, parody, paradox, personification, voice, tone, tense, themes, alliteration, repetition, metaphors, irony, satire, symbols, etc. - just to point a out a few)

IMPORTANT:   You should access an online “literary terms” glossary on the internet.  One that is good is  HYPERLINK "http://helponenglish.hometead.com/terms.html" http://helponenglish.hometead.com/terms.html .

 Also at the bottom of this page they have a list of other “Dictionaries of Literary Terms’.  If you click on the second one in the list “Literary Terms” you will get to the following:  HYPERLINK "http://www.tnellen.com/cyberneng/lit_terms/" http://www.tnellen.com/cyberneng/lit_terms/  which gives you more terms and at the bottom it also leads you to other very good online dictionaries.

WE WILL BE DOING MAJOR WORK WITH THESE TEXTS.  YOU WILL BE DOING RESEARCH PAPERS IN THE FIRST SEMESTER BASED ON THE FIRST FOUR BOOKS.  THEREFORE, READ THEM CAREFULLY. 

 

 

Sincerely,

Ms. Brajovic